Virus Venugopal.

Early 90's was dominated by Word Star7, dbase, Lotus 1-2-3 and diskette drives (pen drives appeared later). Computerization drive was initiated as a part of Organization’s policy. Under this pretext departments/sections that were not enjoying this privilege were allowed to procure a PC through the central pool. This was done post snide remarks, acrimonious debates and rivalry.

The gentleman in question, Mr. Venugopal, from his earlier avatar as a design engineer, had worked in various departments. His stay was of short duration in each department- unacceptable to the Head & Staff.

A Computer buff that he was, always collecting useful/useless data and variety of software. He was always seen with a pouch full of floppies. All he wanted was the friendship of someone having access to a computer. Another trait of his was the desire to use a PC which he has not used earlier. He fulfilled his desire by steadily striking friendship with many colleagues.

He happily edited re-edited, formatted and loaded latest anti-virus & other software. During this work, he volunteered to coach gullible individuals thus extending his stay on the PC.

After sometime this gentleman found to his annoyance that no one was willing to allocate time for him to work, as he had used all the newly installed PCs.

He was not to know, at that time, that all the gullible persons had got together and decided that ‘enough is enough’. They also nicknamed him as “Virus Venugopal” as he had spread virus in all their Personal Computers!